Learning Chinese with pinyin only
Just wanted to write one entry in English because I can't say it in Chinese.
On this website I saw many people who only learn to write Chinese in pinyin. Why is that?!
I think it doesn't make sense. When I try to read their texts I hardly understand ANYthing... There are so many Chinese characters that are written the same in pinyin. How can you understand a full and long text that's only written in pinyin? I saw that Chinese people can correct those entries. I wonder how hard it is for them to read the texts...
Chinese characters aren't THAT hard to learn if you open yourself to learn them! I actually can read more characters than I can understand spoken Chinese! :-P
I type Chinese characters using the pinyin input. Great for learning: I have to know how it's written in pinyin and have to remember how the character looks like.
This of course is only MY opinion about it and I wanted to share it with you.
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Learning Chinese with pinyin only
Just wanted to write one entry in English because I can't say it in Chinese.On this website I see many people who only learn to write Chinese in pinyin. Why is this?
Not only it doesn't make sense, but when I try to read their text I hardly understand ANYthing. There are so many Chinese characters that are written the same in pinyin. How can you understand a long text that's only written in pinyin? I saw that Chinese people can correct those entries. I wonder how hard it is for them to read the text.
Chinese characters are not THAT hard to learn if you open yourself to learn them! I actually can read more characters than I can understand spoken Chinese! :-P
I type in Chinese characters using the pinyin input and it's great for learning. I'll have to know how it's written in pinyin and I have to remember how the character looks like.
This of course is only MY opinion and I wanted to share it with you.
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Pinyin is useful, but using only pinyin means to loose the fun and to keep all the pain
in the study of this beautiful language.
I think Chinese writing is so difficult because actually its original purpose was not to solve the problem of a written communication among living humans, but those symbols originated from the effort to solve a much harder and -- yet unsolved -- problem, that is to communicate with the ancestors, the ones already departed from cozy planet Earth; our writing system (alphabetical) did not pursue such a difficult task.
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I really agree with you.I think Chinese characters are very important parts in Chinese.It was changing since the ancient time.Every part of a character have it`s own meaning.Although the simplized characters have less meaning than the complized ones,the meaning is still important.If they think it`s too difficult to remember the characters,they can try typing Chinese by using the wubi imput.I enjoy imputing characters by wubi.It`s also a fast way to imput.
I`m good at ancient Chinese characters.Anyone interested can cantect me.
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我想可能是因为，对于一些学习中文的初学者来说，他们认识的汉字不多，但是他们知道怎么发音，所以他们就用拼音了吧。
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That`s why we cannot cancel our Chinese charactors but only use Pinyin als our only communication tool. Several years agao, a German friend asked me why we made our languages so difficult to learn. I was at that time a little wordless, I couldn`t change his mind that Chinese language was complicated.Without Pinyin, it is of course difficult to learn expecially the pronunciations, without charactors, our language wouldn`t be a language any more, because it would have lost its root.
Juljin, have you ever read the book "Hanzi Wangguo"( or "the Kingdom of Characters", dessen deutscher Titel ist Eine Welt aus Zeichen.) which is written by Cecilia Lindqvist? It is an interesting book.~~
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